The year 1991, 8 bit magazines such as Amstrad Action, Your Sinclair and ZZAP64, lined the shelves at the local newsagents, choc-a-block full of the latest games reviews.

Here is a brief look back at just some of the 8bit games being road tested and reviewed in the magazines we enjoyed reading so much, 25 years ago this month –

Amstrad Action issue 64, January 1991.

• Switchblade cartridge, Gremlin Software, 94% overall rating.
• Flimbo’s Quest, System 3, overall rating 73%.
• Grand Prix Circuit, Accolade, overall rating 63%.
• Magic Land Dizzy, Codemasters, overall rating 85%.
• James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, Domark Software, overall rating 52%
• Midnight Resistance, Ocean Software, overall rating 77%.

Crash issue 84  (Sinclair Spectrum), January 1991.

• Line Of Fire, U.S. Gold Software, overall rating 70%.
• Edd the Duck, Impulze Software, overall rating 83%.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Turtles, Image Works, overall rating 80% (not coin op version)
• Extreme, Digital Integration, overall rating 88%.
• Robocop 2, Ocean Software, overall rating 93%.
• Navy Seals, Ocean Software, overall rating 94%.
• Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Gremlin Software, overall raing 90%.

ZZAP issue 69, January 1991.

• Robocop 2, Ocean Sofwatre, C64 overall rating 90%.
• Narc, Ocean Software, C64 overall rating 86%.
• Dragon Breed, Activision Software, C64 overal rating 79%.
• Navy Seals, Ocean Software, C64 overall rating 92%.
• Chips Challenge, U.S. Gold, C64 overall rating 86%.
• Strider 2, U.S. Gold, C64 overall rating 65%.
• The amazing Spiderman, Empire, C64 overall rating 40%.
• James Bond – SPy Who Loved Me, Domark Softare, C64 overall rating 38%.
• Snowstrike, Epyx / U.S. Gold, C64 overall rating 29%.

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